Sheremetyevo -
Red Square (30 min) Landmark square, site of the Kremlin, the 16th-century St. Basil's Cathedral & Lenin's mausoleum. Park Pobedy Na Poklonnoy Gore (15 min) Sprawling war memorial park with fountains & forest, plus a museum & soaring obelisk. Poklonnaya Hill (14 min) One of Moscow's highest points, home to the Victory Park with World War II displays & a war museum. Bolshoi Theatre (32 min) Lavish neoclassical repertory theater housing Russia's world-famous Bolshoi Ballet & Bolshoi Opera. State Historical Museum (25 min) Imposing neo-Russian building of 1881, displaying prehistoric relics, Romanov dynasty art & more. Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure (26 min) Park with 1700s garden, boules cafe, open-air movie theater, contemporary art & winter ice rink. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (24 min) Classical building with antiquities, sculpture & painting collections, plus temporary exhibitions. Lenin's Mausoleum at Red Square (30 min) Pyramid-shaped stone building, opened in 1930, with a memorial hall holding Lenin's sarcophagus. Sparrow Hills (26 min) Hilltop view point with panoramas of the city skyline, Moskva River & Olympic stadium. Armoury Chamber (30 min) Armory museum in a Kremlin-style building with exhibits ranging from weapons to jewellery. The Moscow Kremlin (24 min) Immense, fortified compound of churches & palaces, with museums of Russian state regalia & art. Novodevichy Convent (24 min) Riverside 1520s monastery known for its fresco-lined 5-domed cathedral & ornate soaring bell tower. Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (29 min) Gleaming domes top this Orthodox edifice, rebuilt in the 1990s, with ornate, fresco-lined interior. The State Tretyakov Gallery (29 min) Art museum with a collection of over 180,000 Russian works spanning multiple centuries. St. Basil's Cathedral (31 min) Multicolored domes top this 16th-century former cathedral that now contains a museum of the church. |